Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul
The Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul (or informally Mossul of the Syriacs) is a non-metropolitan archeparchy (Eastern Catholic archdiocese) of the Syriac Catholic Church, centered in the city of Mosul, in northern Iraq. It is immediately subjected to the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch and the Roman Congregation for the Oriental Churches, not part of any ecclesiastical province. Its cathedral (episcopal see) is the Syriac Catholic Cathedral in Mosul.
History
It was established in 1790, without rite-specific predecessor.[1]
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 45,000 Eastern Catholics in 15 parishes and 2 missions with 82 priests (56 diocesan, 26 religious), 1 deacon, 36 lay religious (33 brothers, 3 sisters) and 15 seminarians.
Episcopal ordinaries
- Archeparchs (Archbishops) of Mossul
(incomplete? ; all West Syriac Rite)
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- Cyrille Behnam Benni (1862 – 1893.10.12), later Eparch (Bishop) of Mardin and Amida of the Syrians (Turkey) (1893.10.12 – 1897.09.13), Patriarch of Antioch of the Syrians (Lebanon) ([1893.10.12] 1894.05.18 – death 1897.09.13)
- Grégoire Pierre Habra (born Syria) (1901.08.16 – 1924.03.24), later Metropolitan Archbishop of Damascus of the Syrians (Syria) (1924.03.24 – death 1933.03.21)
- Atanasio Giorgio (Cyrille) Dallal (1926.07.31 – death 1951.12.14), previously Archeparch of Baghdad of the Syrians (Iraq) (1912.09.04 – 1926.07.31)
- Jules Georges Kandela (1952.03.07 – 1959.08.23), previously Titular Bishop of Cephas ([1951.04.26] 1951.08.15 – 1952.03.07); later Auxiliary Eparch of the patriarchate Antioch of the Syrians (Lebanon) (1959.08.23 – 1971) & Titular Archbishop of Seleucia Pieria (1959.08.23 – death 1980.04.15)
- Cyrille Emmanuel Benni (1959.10.23 – death 1999.12.09)
- Basile Georges Casmoussa (1999.09.22 – 2011.03.01), later Bishop of Curia of the Syrians (2011.03.01 – ...), Apostolic Visitor in Western Europe of the Syrians (2014.01.13 – 2017.06.21), Apostolic Visitor in Australia of the Syrians (2017.06.21 – ...)
- Boutros Moshe (2011.03.01 – ...), no previous prelature.